I Have to write a horror story i was thinking haunted castle or apparitions please help (no blood or gore)?

Question

I really really need help i've looked at Edgar Allan poe but i'm not allowed to use his work please write in the 1st person and no blood or gore

Answer 1

We'll you could write about my nightmare the other night.

Really strange things were happening-dogs were running away from something, but I didn't know why.

The I was going on a journey in a car with my friend and, like you do was joking and talking with my friend.Than my friend looked across at me and on the top paneling of the door on my side were the exact words that I was saying written in the condensation and then we looked away from it, then my friend looked back at it and it said "You're going to die". She pulled over the car in a hurry and pointed at it. As I was getting out of the car my friend warned I might be in some body's cross-hires so I sat back in. I felt like that guy in "phone-both" and my phone ring...........................and I wake up in a pool of sweat

This is where you take over

Sorry if you find this boring, I'm not very good at stories

Answer 2

The best type of horror is when ordinary things we take for granted start mysteriously changing. Like a door that closed behind you and suddenly it doesn't have a doorknob. Or solid things go soft. Or people you've always liked change into eveil strangers. Worst for me is being lost in an underground tunnel, especially one with a bad smell, like decaying flesh. You don't have to describe what you SEE, just what you FEAR. It's the UNKNOWN that keeps the reader on edge. You could write yourself trying to get into the old house your best friend lived in, which is now empty. You remember he had your valuable comic collection and you think it's still in the house. You can only enter through an old root cellar.

Answer 3

As I came to the strange house I was just given by my Aunt agtha, the strangness of the landscape gave me the shivers. Black dead tress look like the hands of the dead reaching out to the sky. The house itself as cold dark look like it could eat someone.
I stop in front and got out of my car and started to walk up to the front door. I got the feeling I was being watch by something not of this world. This was not some run down movie huanted house, it had been will care for. The walls were pianted a off white with dark green shuttes. The door was a polished oak with bright brass hardware. As I opened the door the air that came rushing out was sweet with the scent of flowers. I walked in and the everthing was clean and well order but there was a feeling of something not right.

And now you can finish the story

Answer 4

what happens when a person sits by a fireplace and as the fire dies down there appears to be a being of some sort coming out of the fire who is being pursued by another form. these two forms enter the room and challenge the person to discover the truth between their stories so that either justice or injustice will prevail. each figure recounts a tale and the person must judge the truth from what has been presented.

Answer 5

My first option was also the fer of the unknown, maybe accentuating it by placing it in a familiar environment "gone wrong".

Another writing technique that you might find useful, is playing with mysticism, preferably, beliefs from your community (nothing sacred, but widely spread rumors or myths), nothing like a story on something that everybody knows and secretly fears, but is not discussed in the open.

Last, but not least, the fear of loosing what you hold dear, stories that remind os of the fragility of existence, our own mortality, and such, even if hard to write (readers tend to dissociate from this stories, unless carefully lead) are very, very frightening in the end since they remind us of the real "monsters" out there.

Answer 6

Don't think of haunted castles and apparitions. Think of politicians. Then you'll have the perfect horror story!